Article ID: 233079 - Last Review: January 24, 2007 - Revision: 3.1

OLEXP: Error Message When Choosing to Work Offline

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For information about the differences between Microsoft Outlook Express and Microsoft Outlook e-mail clients, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
257824  (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/257824/EN-US/ ) OL2000: Differences Between Outlook and Outlook Express
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SYMPTOMS

When you start Outlook Express and choose to work offline in the Connection dialog box, you may receive the following error message:
An error occurred while establishing the Dial-Up Network connection
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RESOLUTION

Even though you may receive this error message (and possibly additional error messages indicating that you cannot send or receive e-mail), you can ignore the error message(s) and continue to use Outlook Express in Offline mode.
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STATUS

This behavior is by design.
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APPLIES TO
  • Microsoft Outlook Express 5.0
  • Microsoft Outlook Express 5.0
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